Florida Man Convicted In Multimillion-Dollar Medicare Fraud Scheme

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced today the conviction of TED ALBIN for his role in orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme. ALBIN was convicted following a 12-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl. From approximately 2016 through April 2021, ALBIN operated Grapevine Professional Services (“Grapevine”), a medical billing company, which he used to submit fraudulent reimbursement claims for durable medical equipment (“DME”), including back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, and shoulder braces. ALBIN submitted thousands of fraudulent claims on behalf of DME supply companies that had engaged Grapevine for its billing services, including at least three DME supply companies owned and controlled by ALBIN and his sister, Erin Foley—Liberty Bell Medical, Skye Medical, and Priority Medical. ALBIN knew of the fraudulent nature of the claims he submitted to Medicare and nonetheless continued to submit such claims, over and over, for years. In total, the DME companies that ALBIN submitted claims for billed Medicare for over $38 million, on which Medicare paid out over $12 million.

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